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Q: From about 1985 till about 2005, my blood pressure ran about 150/90, and I needed antihypertensive medications.

City Attorney Tom McCormick has told the Raleigh City Council that he’s waiting for guidance from Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby.

He ended up having a random conversation that has transformed not only his life but also his city.

Can a district already so strapped for cash that it has to scrounge to keep teacher assistants on the payroll one more year afford to launch a multi-million dollar experiment to save the boys of Durham? Last week, The Herald-Sun reported about a proposed partnership between Durham Public Schools and Maureen Joy Charter School that would establish ... (more)

Police said a man with a gun came up to a woman making a deposit at the Wells Fargo on Hope Valley Road.

For their third release, "Coyotes," the wife-and-husband-duo of Andrea and Pete Connolly - better known as Birds and Arrows - wanted to extend their sound palette.

Siberian husky, Adek, looks on as Robin Pace, left, and Frank Austin, right, of Best Piano Movers tries out one of the pianos as they move them into downtown Raleigh in time for Artsplosure this weekend.

Dogs have to stay on leashes in Raleigh parks but can run freely at three dog parks: Oakwood , Millbrook Exchange and Carolina Pines .

Control of heart disease risk factors varies widely among outpatient practices, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013.

Speaker of the House Thom Tillis, right, talks to his Communications Director Jordan Shaw during a short recess in the House of Representatives on Thursday, May 16, 2013, at the N.C. General Assembly.

Roseboro mayor David Alexander was hesitant to allow citizens to keep chickens in town because he fears that if the law is changed for chickens then others may come forward wanting the town to make allowances for livestock animals.

If you haven't noticed lately, the Chronicle Sports section is outperforming the Durham paper and coming close to the N&O as well.

Favorable exchange rates, global economic uncertainty, and a desire for nice weather and scenery are driving more international buyers to purchase properties in the United States.

The Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple, named earlier this year as the new bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, will be consecrated June 15 in a service at Duke Chapel that will include the Most Rev.

Virginia Intermont alumnus Bart Smith, who died in a helicopter crash in 1991 at age 28, was memorialized in a May 13, 2013 dedication ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The Journalists Memorial, located in the seven-story Newseum, pays tribute to reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news.

Scott Lanier, a Hillsborough insurance agent, recalled Raven and Janet Abaroa applying for separate policies as well as a renter’s insurance policy which Raven Abaroa made a claim on for a stolen personal computer shortly after his wife’s death.

A state auditor’s investigation into a Durham Technical Community College employee working a private business on the state’s dime led to the employee’s firing, a report released Wednesday revealed.

Southern High School wide-receiver Maurice Trowell made it out to ECU last week to attend a spring practice.

Luke Smith is executive director of El Futuro, a nonprofit that helps the Latino community with mental health and addiction counseling.

From the human perspective, few events in evolution were more momentous than the split among primates that led to apes and Old World monkeys .